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Our collection in the William H. Smith Memorial Library contains its fair share of guestbooks and scrapbooks, but I think …
November is Indigenous History month. Indigenous communities in present-day Indiana, existed for generations, several times over, before European contact. And …
In my last blog post, Return to Rare Book School, Part I, I discussed the “Descriptive Bibliography: The Fundamentals” course …
During the first week of August, I was fortunate to attend Rare Book School for the second time. In June …
Today, Mexican restaurants are easy to find around the city of Indianapolis. But in the 1960s you would see the …
In November of 2002 at Union Station in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana’s first and only foreign consulate would open its doors …
Sometimes one encounters an individual who may not be quite front and center in an archival collection, but who may …
Early last summer, I wrote a blog outlining some of the basics about contributing historical materials to the Indiana Historical …
Once his photographer brother introduced him to the sand dunes of Indiana and vicinity in 1911, Frank Virgil Dudley devoted …
Early in the morning on July 21, 1961, a Redstone rocket blasted off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral …
